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Posted By: km7Paul Derivative of Language - 05/04/07 08:47 PM
It's always fun to see the derivation of words from Latin , French or what ever.
> We rarely see any from Greek or Hebrew.
As an also to that, what would be the
> likely foundation for German ? [b]
Posted By: tsuwm Re: Derivative of Language - 05/04/07 08:49 PM
> We rarely see any from Greek or Hebrew.

boy, is that ever wrong!
(they're just nearly always anglicized.)

>As an also to that, what would be the likely foundation for German ?

what's this mean?
Posted By: zmjezhd Re: Derivative of Language - 05/04/07 08:58 PM
You can start here for English words of Hebrew origin. It's rather incomplete. They don't have shofar, mezzuzah, or teffilin. Shittim is a funny one, too. A word of Semitic origin is wine probably borrowed into one or more Indo-European languages, thought the etymology is not without controversy.

With Greek words, there are simply too many to list. A favorite of mine is tmesis. As for the final question, do you mean what languages provide vocabulary to German besides Old and Middle High German? There are lots of French words (e.g., a bunch of verbs that end in -ieren a sort of redundant infinitival ending, e.g., probieren 'to test, assay'), some Italian (e.g., Brutto 'gross; before taxes', Netto 'net; after taxes', Razzia 'police raid'), and even some Latin (e.g., schreiben 'to write').
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